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Crows' winter home in city

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Birds believed to feel safer around humans

Sure, it's a miracle of nature, an echo of a time in America, ornithologists say, when flocks of hundreds of millions of birds could darken the sky for hours as they passed over.

Arundel outcome on slots in doubt

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Council faces lobbying onslaught on eve of vote

A proposal to build the state's marquee slots parlor in Anne Arundel County hinges on a few undecided local lawmakers who are facing a lobbying onslaught from powerful political and business interests as well as their constituents as they prepare to cast a long-awaited vote on Monday.

A Sun Snapshot: Should Dixon stay?

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Nearly 400 people representing a cross section of Baltimore debate Mayor Dixon's future

I n the market and at the bus stop, over glasses of wine and under the barber's clippers, the daily rhythm of life in Baltimore has been interrupted by a question reverberating through many a conversation: Should Mayor Sheila Dixon, convicted of embezzlement, continue to run the city?

Food stamp case headed to court

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Baltimore Co. woman sued state for failure to give aid on time; Md. lags, advocates say

A Baltimore County woman's lawsuit against the state for failing to provide food stamps in a timely manner is scheduled to go to court Monday, days after the release of data showing that only 59 percent of eligible Marylanders were receiving the government assistance.

Snowflakes big, problems few

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

City streets are salted, but light snow yields to rain

Yesterday's coastal snowstorm perked up holiday spirits but did little else, as what started as rain changed over to big, puffy white flakes, then turned back to rain in the evening.

Program encourages girls to consider engineering

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Middle-schoolers gather at Hopkins for 'Ready Set Design'

Forty area middle-school girls gathered Saturday for a novel engineering program called "Ready Set Design!" encouraging women into a field where they have been underrepresented.

Local ghost sleuth hits airwaves Sunday night

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Mount Airy woman's group to appear on Animal Planet

Any radio can play the Grateful Dead, but it's another matter to transmit the voices of the merely deceased. That takes a bit of work on the radio with a wire cutter, maybe a pair of pliers, and - the skeptic might argue - a leap of faith.

Shriver sees effects of her Tennis Challenge on families

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Baltimore Hall-of-Famer's fundraiser event benefits children

Tennis Hall of Fame member and Baltimore native Pam Shriver is busy these days with her three young children, George, 5, and twins Kate and Sam, 4.

This time, someone took the whole bike rack in Charles Village

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The problem: The bicycle rack at Baltimore's first on-street bike parking area in Charles Village is missing.

Peter Hermann: In the details, catching the devil

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

B altimore County homicide detectives said they knew who pulled the trigger shortly after two men burst into a liquor store on Belair Road and fatally shot the owner in the head. The gunman had a stocking pulled over his head, but police said they could recognize him from a surveillance video.